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Would you mind sharing which Apexels do you recommend?
by polskibus 5y ago
Would you mind sharing which Apexels do you recommend?
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoI have just the one now. It's the Apexel HD 2X telephoto. I bought it because I wanted a slightly longer lens for portrait location scouting, and chose this one not because I am certain it is excellent but because I doubt there's enough of a quality gap between the Apexels and the Moment or Rhinoshield lenses to justify the much higher price. It is really fairly good though, until you get into the corners. But then I happily use vintage lenses on my A7II that are worse in the corners! What difference there is, is that the Moment lenses use a tiny bayonet, which I think I would prefer to the 17mm thread Apexel, Ulanzi and others use. Screwing the lens on can be fiddly, especially with the semi-open, three-quarter circumference attachment threads you typically see on lens adapter phone cases. Don't use the clamp attachments. They are hard to align and I think that is a lot of why people find attachment lenses so disappointing. Get a phone case with a built-in 17mm thread (or bayonet if you pick a bayonet lens type). I think I'm using a Ulanzi case. The only frustration that remains is that the iPhone's built-in camera app does not let you force the choice of either of the lenses. It will choose for you if you pick 2x. So you might want an app. I really like the ProCamera app. I'm not sure whether accessory lenses are so useful on some of the three and four camera mobiles, but it works well enough for my iPhone X.
- prawn 5y agoI've had a few clamp-style lens attachments for my iPhone and you have to keep them very clean or they can scratch the screen. Plus the alignment, as you said, is finicky.